> Contrary to some other languages (e.g. shell, TCL , awk,

That's not up to date:

Since version 8.4, Tcl has featured the ability to automatically translate scripts into bytecode where feasible

from http://wiki.tcl.tk/38633

It's interesting to note that one of the main arguments why TCL lost against competitors like Perl was the bad performance.

Also what they call "bytecode" here seems to be high level opcode.

That's all not very new stuff, I'm pretty sure many BASIC dialects in the 80s already "tokenized" the source in a "parsing" phase.

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^4: Pre-compiled Perl? by LanX
in thread Pre-compiled Perl? by bbs2web

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